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1 ROADS AND EMPIRE.
Georgia !• about to launoh the greatsat road building pro
gram In ita history. Governor Talmadge has won another fight
for ths people of Georgia.
Yesterday the federal government released $17,000,000 of
highway funds to the state of Georgia and within an hour High
way Department officials had announced that $2,500,000 worth
of road projects would be under way within a fortnight.
Political foes of Governor Talmadge, angered by his honest
and outspoken criticism of the New Deal program, used their
strategic positions in an attempt to withhold funds to which
Georgia was entitled on an equal basis with every other stats.
They had thus hoped to discredit the Governor in the eyes of
his people. Had they been successful in stopping payment of
the federal road funds to Georgia, foes of the Governor would
have been able to cry: “This man has blocked the progress of
your state. His dictatorial policies have brought about the loss
of millions to the people of Georgia.”
But again Talmadge, dictator perhaps, but statesman above
all, has triumphed in his fight to make Georgia a greater state.
The Romans built roads. Roads built the Roman empire.
New Georgians will build roads, and roads will build a Georgia
empire.
For long the Empire state of the South was an empire of
cowpaths and country wagon tracks. While Georgians poured
millions into the highway fund through a high gasoline tax and
a ruinous state automobile license fee, a ruthless highway de
partment personnel rode in limousines whose expensive running
gear smoothed out the bumps. Heads in the air, these limousined
officials rode by the farmer and the average citizen, whose mod
erately priced car struggled and sputtered in mud and rut and
washboard highway.
The situation came to the point where the late Harvey
Granger, -whose fight for good roads was a by-word throughout
the Coastal Empire, once remarked:
“The people of Georgia have spent a billion dollars for
roads, and the only place they can safely reach by road is Flor
ida.”
Then Governor Talmadge was elected. Sizing up the situa
tion immediately, the fearless Governor threw out the erring
highway officials and appointed a group through whom he could
give the people of Georgia the roads they so sorely needed. De
spite a recalcitrant Legislature, he gave the people a reasonably
priced license tag. His highway department began building
roads—real roads.
Now, with a vast fund at its command, Governor Talmadge’s
highway board can and will,give Georgia a system of highways
second to none.
Georgians, look to the new empire. Your empire will be
built on roads.
NOT—In the News
COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION
Some beaut; writers insist that you
ean tell a great deal about a woman
just by watching her hands. But a
French shoe expert has gone the
pulchritude dealers one better by as
serting that It is easier to determine
a womans character by studying her
feet
This may sound strange to you. but
he has worked out a formula which
he declares proved very reliable in
its operation. We don’t know how he
found out all theee things, but you
L may be interested in learning how
* he does It.
A woman who has a duck walk,
. with the toes turned out, suggests the
I prevalence of fear and the lack of
\ success in her makeup, or so he
says.
On the other hand, pigeon-toes, or
toes pointing Inward, imply a lack of
brightness.
And If there’s a bunion, ib betrays
envy and a depression attitude in its
owner.
When you see a woman sit down
and plant her feet close together in
front of her, you may be sure that
She is afraid everyone is staring at
her, and that she is Inclined to nerv
ousness.
But, if you can detect confidence
In the action a woman in placing
her feet, either in walking or in rest
ing them in front of her when she
sits down, you have an Indication
th>4 ahe is confident of her appeal
bo OttMM.
Ke doom** say what It means
Iwhta you trip and fall down, or if
pour heel copies off.
The scope of insurance is wider
|| than you might think. It isn't con-
M fined to life, automobile, marine and
the other usual types. There have
,been many policies Issued for many
j strongs things.
toking out insurance against rain, or
PertMpe you have heard of people
♦ '..J toking out insurance for rain. Others
| have obtained Insurance against war
But we '-hint the strangest of all
fl was the policy issued to a man in
London. It insured him against risk
of seeing a ghost. We don’t know
jSN whether he ever collected.
W Another Englander took out life in
guranre covert*”’ •*
A pipeline from the river to a reser
voir nearby was being chemically
cleaned and he was afraid the chem
icals would kill the fish.
A Londoner who had gone to Chi
cago to live obtained an insurance
policy which Insured him against the
distortion of his accent by the dialect
of the middle west.
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test
1. What section of the United
States is said to have been the spot
which Norsemen called Vinland?
2. In law, what is meant by “dou
ble jeopardy”?
3. Distinguish between (a) concave,
and (bg) convex.
Hints on Etiquette
An even temper is one of the most
important factors if one wants to be
an al-around success at any sport.
Noisy exultation at winning, sulky
depressldfi at lasing .and fiery im
patience over the inexperience of a
partner are blots on behavior.
Words of Wisdom
The flower of the sweetest smell Is
shy and lowly.—Wordsworth.
Today’s Horoscope
Persons bom on ths day are some
what reserved and have mechanical
ability. ( They would make a success
in the legal profession if they kept in
one place long enough, which they
should learn to do as they have abil
ity to accomplish things if they sim
ply stick.
One-Minute T»t Answers
1. The New England coast.
2. Being put on trial twice for the
same offense.
3. (a) Surface curve like the in
terior of a circle, (b) surface curved
like the exterior of a circle.
When the righteous tumeth from
his righteousness, and committeth in
iquity, hs sir 11 ev*n die thereby.—
TT 1 09• - *
‘ No. 1: Newsboy to Editor
o
Life Story in Sketches of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
Arthur H. Vandenberg,
United States senator
from Michigan, was bom
at Grand Rapids, March
22, 1884, the son of Aaron
Vandenberg, a harness
maker, and Alpha Hen
drick. At the age of nine,
his carefree years were
cut short by family finan
cial difficulties, and he
was forced to earn his
own living and help his
parents.
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
LANDON’S SPEECHES
Even Though Not Delivered Mellifluously
READ WELL DAY AFTER
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, May 20.—The vir
tually unanimous verdict of politi
cians In Washington is that Gov. Alf
M. Landon's recent radio interview
was a corking good piece of propagan
da for himself.
That is to say,- it didn’t sound so
well on the air, but in print it was
excel, .lent.
The governor, it is agreed, knows
how to write a telling speech.
His delivery of it is nothing to
write home about.
• • •
“Diagnosticians” Puzzled
Political diagnosticians are wonder
ing—
Which is preferable?—
1. A speech which doesn't mean
much, but is wonderful to listen to—
or—
2. A speech which has meat in it,
tut which isn't very thrilling to listen
to?
In pre-radio days they would have
gambled on meatiness. Most folk
read speeches then; actual audiences
were comparatively small. For ex
ample, William J. Bryan was a spell
binder to those who could hear him,
but he did not overly well stand
analysis It is of record that he rgeu
larly was beaten when it came to a
show down. But, today, with the
whole country listening in “on the
air” and few persons bothering to do
any studying afterward, it may be
different.
Political calculators frankly are
puzzled.
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SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES. WEDNESDAY. MAY 20. 1936
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He helped support the
family by selling news
papers and operating a
pushcart service around
freight depots. He was
graduated from Grand
Rapids high school in
1900. He set out to
study law by making
his way through the Uni
versity of Michigan. He
had to quit after a year
because of his family’s
financial needs.
Personal Experience
On the whole, the betting is on the
radio.
As a newspaper man maybe I
shouldn’t say this.
Well ,1 don’t mean to' admit that
the newspaper is a back number. For
news, the public still turns to news
papers .
But for speeches the radio has a
certain handiness.
Illustratively, take my own case:
In the pre-radio era I listened, face
to face, t omany political speakers.
Having done so, I did not have to
read the text of their addresses in
print subsequently. Most folk did.
however; not having heard, they had
to read.
Now I do not have to attend so
many political meetings. I can tune
in and hear what is said as well as if
, I were present. True, I try to check
up later between the inspiration of
mellifluous accents and the sense of
what was said. But that is one of
my professional duties: I am an ex
ception. I think that the average in
dividual gulps down the mellifluous
accents and never afterward ques
tions whether or not thye meant any
thing.
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Writer’s Summary
President Roosevelt's speeches in
Baltimore and New York, his latest
ones, are recognized as having been
masterpieces of talk but as indicative
of nothing in particular.
Governor Landon had something to
say but didn’t say it very well.
It was good in print, indeed.
It enunciated a political philosophy.
It acquitted Landon of the oil taint.
ESI
on
He became an office boy
at the Grand Rapids
Herald. In 1907, at 23,
he was promoted to city
hall reporter, and he be
gan saving enough out of
his small pay to buy two
shares of stock in the pa
per. Except for his tire
less energy, he was an
“average” reporter. His
first “break” came when
U. S. Senator William A.
‘Smith bought the Herald.
You’re Telling
Me?
Now that Italy has won the cham
pionship of Africa a lot of pessimists
are wondering whom they will meet
in the world series
• ♦ *
You'll notice that most of those
who insist their laziness is due
to spring fever, suffer from the
same disease the rest of the year,
too.
« • e
American slang has reached Eu
rope. The League of Nations, thanks
to Mussolini, has learned the full
meaning of that grand old Yankee
retort: “So what?”
• » ♦
Eastern husband found $5,000
while spring house cleaning. At
that, we think he was underpaid.
« • •
Most people blame our national
troubles on three D’s —Dust, Drought
and Depression. But any Republican
will tell you the blame is but one D
Democrats.
It established him .as an anti.-monopo
list. It cleared hi mos the Kansas
prohibition stigma. . .
Yet Landon was clever enough to
dodge antagonizing the oil folk, the
monopolists or the prohibitionists. (It
is queer that prohibition still should
be a factor, but it is, unmistakably).
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Landon’s Abilities
It isn't to be argued that Landon’s
qualifications will elect him to the
presidency.
But they may win the nomination
for him.
In fact, it looks like it.
a W 1
When Vandenberg heard
the paper had been sold
to Senator William A.
Smith, he rushed to the
office, cleaned out a back
room used for storage,
borrowed a chair, and ad
vised the new owner where
he could always find the
editor, meaning himself.
Senator Smith gasped but
gave Vandenberg the job
and appointed him gen
eral manager as well.
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
It was a revealing fight that Sena
tor William E. Borah put up in Ohio.
In this primary campaign for presi
dential delegates, the entire unfescap
able politico-economic issue was un
covered—and both sides tried to side
step.
Here was Senator Borah defying
his own party, the Republican, as
well as the Democratic party, to tell
the truth. And here he was, too,
faced with his own beliefs and not
being able to satisfy with them.
To those who followed this cam
paign, as did this writer, there
seemed a new epoch dawning—but
an epoch which we, perhaps, will not
enter. An epoch reserved for the
coming generation. Not an easy epoch
—rather, one of sharply contesting
forces.
Why does one write this? Well, to
those of us not past) middle age the
arguments used in this bristling, bit
ter campaign seemed aged and totter
ing. The words might have been ut
t?red by gentlemen of the first water
—yet they failed to satisfy. We ob
served that a large part of the multi
tude thought the words outworn.
Nevertheless, more forceful words
were spoken than will be heard at
either major party convention. Here
were issues debated with unreserved
server. It was a revealing primary
campaign to the student of political
history.
Not that it will go down into his
tory; but it may’be one of the last
milestones of a pasing epoch.
* * •
BORAH SPEAKS OUT
Here was a senator speaking out
at 71. fighting for a share in the pro
ceedings of a political party which he
declares is bankrupt of ideas and hope.
If, at 51, this same senator had
spoken as he now was speaking, he
could have obtained the highest prize
—and the party might have surged
with vitality .But here he was 71
fighting against a united front of
men who would dispose of him in
short order.
And what a fight! Even his enemies
admired it. But he was beat at every
turn.
Robert L. Taft, whom the enemy
put up a “favorite son,’’ was a
“front” for putting the Ohio delega
tion on a trading basis. Senator Borah
asserted —and nobody denied. (“What
of it?” asked politicians, forgetful of
the original intent of primaries.)
And who put up such a slate? Wal
ter F. Brown, of Toledo, a boss whose
political tactics have been denounced
for years by many newspapers—Wal
ter F. Brown, who was postmaster
general in Hoover s cabinet. Yes,
Walter F. Brown and State Republic
an Chairman Ed D. Schorr put forth
Mr. Taft—and when one voted for
delegates supporting Mr. Taft. then.
Senator Borah asserted, he voted
“for the nomination of Herbert Hoo
ver and the annihilation of the Re
publican party." But thousands voted
as the machine dictated —yes, tens of
thousands.
And you w’ho did not follow this
campaign will ask why.
Because the ptrsons who ordinarily
wuold follow’ Senator Borah were Jn
the Democratic camp. Not that they
really desired to be there. But in 20
years Senator Borah's follownig had
crostd the Rubicon —and he was in
the wilderness.
• ♦ •
WHISPERS AND MUTTERS
As usually occurs in an election,
campaign, whispers were set afoot.
“Borah had filibustered against the
anti-lynching bill.”
He had not. He had spoken 35
minutes in the senate against the
“unconstitutionality” of that particu
l?r bill. The damage, however, had
been done not only among the large
negro populations of the big cities,
but among some other minorities.
“I am just as much opposed to
lynching as any person could be.*
Senator Borah cried out. “It is a na
tional disgrace.
"My reason for opposing the anti
lynching bill rested solely upon the
proposition of its unconstitutionality.
Congress has no power to pass any
such measure. . •
fl—of
The new “editor-manager”
walked on air the first few
weeks, dreaming of a sal
ary somewhere in the
neighborhood, of $125 a
week. He returned to
earth when his first check
arrived. It was for
$37.50. This experience,
plus his inherited Dutch
thrift, caused Vandenberg
to become a successful
newspaper publisher. <
To Be Continued.
-WORLD AT A GLANCE—
BORAH’S OHIO FIGHT
With Its Bitter, Outspoken Words
HIGHLIGHTED ISSUES
Then Senator Borah launched into
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ft V |
Senator Vandenberg at his type
writer.
the “real issue”—“constitutional in
tegrity.”
But here is where he failed to an
swer a question th;,t listeners were
asking—any more than his opponents
who als odemand “a return to the
constitution” plus economy.
The voters were muttering to
themselves, “If it is unconstitutional
to stop lynching, or provide farm re
lief, or regulate wages and hours, or
stop child labor, then something is
wrong.”
Now. the reader himself may agree
with Senator Borah or his opponents,
and writers, too, may agree with
them, but the fact of the matter is.
these Ohio debates stirred up ques
tions such as the foregoing. And no
body seemed ready among the politi
cians to facethem-
The Democrats, subject to no such
bitter inter-party contest for presi
dential delegates, kept quiet—but they
would have given no more satisfactory
answer to the crowd. They are slid
ing through on “prosperity.”
My New York
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK. May 20—Rando
musing: There’s a new profession for
the gals, these last few years: profes
sor of knitting . . . Most of the big
department stores here hire ladies
to teach knitting, crocheting and
even quilt-patching as a wave of re
vived interest in the domestic arts
sweeps the town . . . Jack Dempsey’s
eleven room flat in Central Park West
will be one of the most eye-filling
“digs” in town after decorations are
complete . . Dempsey, by the way,
still watches his weight and exercises
regularly, now that the life of a res
tauranteur involves rich food and late
hours. ...
• * *
Laundry fashions in Manhattan
point the lines between the wage
groups more sharply than limousines.
Spread out across Lower East side
rooftops, like flags, or fluttering to
dry from the cabins of barges off
Coenties Slip ... Or rolling down
Park Avenue in highpower, discreetly
lettered delivery wagons, done up in
packages like candy or flowers. Fif
teen dollars a week for a family wash
for two ... In New York the differ
ence between a laundry and a blan
chisscrie is about twelve dollars a
week. . . .
Then there are the private laun
dresses who call at the great Fifth
Avenue mansions—now growing few
er and fewer with the years and the
ingenious, envious taxes. .. . They are, i
for the most part, solemn, sturdy wo- ]
men with Gallic blood in them, big,
muscled and competent . . . The Chin
ese laundries are slowly infiltrating
the upper class families . , . Mosst of :
them will undertake a contractual I
arrangement, whereby any amount cf 1
laundry is done at* so much a week, <
through the years. . . . This way most <
families have found the can save half <
their laundry bills, although occa
sionally a shirt will succumb to the <
marvelously potent chemical, or what
ever it is, that can shade a piece of 1
cloth through the spectrum to white
in two washings. . . .
Your confirmed auction buyer must
tread warily in New York . . . Aline i
MacMahcn and Miriam Hopkins thrill ]
to the raised hammer and the “going, :
going—” chant . . . But so many
auctions here are pure gyps . . . Be
ware of the bright light sector rooms,
will loudspeakers outside, although. ,
of course, some of these yield bargains
to the shrewd . . . The Post Office
Department auctions of unclaimed
mail and the Police Department of
ferings of seized and abandoned prop- ,
erty are the most engaging, in these
eyes . . . Every hotel has its auction,
once a year, or so. of unclaimed bag
gage . . . Sometimes it’s hard to
believe that no one has taken a peck
into the large and opulent-lookin;
locked valises. . .
There are some byways, though
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
By CLARK KINNAIRD
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press As
sociation)
Wednesday, May 20; MecklenbuJU
' Independence Day in North Carolina,
independence Day in Cuba. New
moon.
Scanning the skies: Some astron
omers refer bo the Earth and Moon
as a double planet.,There is no other
case known .to astronomers in which
a satellite bears such an important
relation to its primary, despite the
disparity in their sizes. Although the
mass, or weight, of the earth is 81
times that of the moon, an object
on earth’s surface weighs only six
times as much as it would on the
moon. A man weighing 180 pounds
would weigh 30 if he were transport
ed to the moon. That is because the
force of gravity at the surface of
two spherical bodies is not directly
proportional to their masses, but Is M
the mass of each divided by the
square of the radius.
• « •
Notable Nativities
Lyda Roberti, b. 1909, stage and
screen actress . . . Augustine Loner
gan, b. 1874, senator from Connecti
cut • . . Estelle Taylor, b. 1900, act
ress and vaudeville performer . . .
Rt. Rev. Ernest M. Stires, b. 1866,
P. E. Bishop in New York.
• « *
Today’s Yesterdays
May 20, 1506 Cristobol Colon,
called Columbus, died in Spain aged
either 55 or 60—no one knows. His
last wish was that he be buried in
the chain in which he had been sent
from Haiti to Spain. He had four
graves! The body was buried first in
a monastery near Seville, later moved
to Santo Domingo, then transferred
to the cathedral in Havana, and fi
nally taken back to the cathedral in
Seville.
* * •
May 20, 1861—North Carolina se
ceded from the Union, on the 114bh
anniversary of Mecklenburg country’s
! declaration of independence from
Great Britain.
*♦ • »
One hundred years ago today—
Samuel Baldwin was buried at the
bottom of the Thames, at Lymington,
England, in accordance with his last
wish. He picked this strange burial
place because his wife, in domestic
squabbles, had assured him that he
intended to enjoy herself dancing on
his grave!
« « •
May 30, 1909—An historic day in
moviedom. The first animal picture,
"Hunting Big Game in AfricA," had
its “world premiere.” It aws to set a
record for attendance' and showings.
Audiences thought that it showed
Ex - President Theodore Roosevelt
shooting a lion in Africa. The picture
had been filmed in Chicago, with an
impersonator of Roosevelt and a lion
purchased for $75!
It was notable as the first) picture
of more than one reel. Exhibitors bad
opposed two reelers previously, be
caussthey kept audiences in the the
aters too long!
* * *
First World War Day-By-Day
Twenty Years Ago Today—The
German Crown Prince's Pomeranian
divisions were repulsed in another as
sault on Dead Man’s Hill, at Verdun,
which lived up to its name. There
after it could have been named 20,-
000 Dead Men’s Hill appropriately.
* * «
All Britain was placed under fuel
saving rules,. While the men at the
front sang, “Keep the home fires
burning,” the government told their
families in England, ,r Don’t keep the
home fires burning.’’
(To be continued)
♦ ♦ ♦
Carlyle’s grim jest that “the
French nobles laughed at Rousseah’s
theories, but their skins went to
bind the second edition of his books,”
was founded on fact. There was a
tannery at Meudon where skins of
certain guillotined aristocrats were
turned into leather.
Jam s Whitcomb Rile/s first poems
were published under the name of
Edgar Allen Poe! He claimed they
were lost poems of Poe, a hoax which
he later explained as a ruse intended
to attract editorial attention. But
this wasn’t his only offense against
literary ethics. He got the idea for
“When the Frost is on the Pumpkin
and the Fodder’s in the Shock,”
from an unpublished poem by a fel
low guest at a house party, Donn
Piatt. The latter called his, “When
the Bloom is on the Alder, and the
Tassel's on the Corn,”
A sleepwalker in Pava, 111., slipped
out of btd without waking his wife,
went to his garage, drove 12 blocks
to the home of a friend and, still
loud, worried voice, “I've come to fix
that furnace.”
asleep, got them up to announce in a
Thanks to us: Hall Csiine left
$1,000,000; Rudyard Kipling nearly
the same amount; Thomas Hardy
$500,000; John Galsworth $450,000;
George Moore $350,000 chiefly be
cause of the enormous royalties each
earned in the U. S. This country
provided the major part of the in
come of all of them.
More than 200 cats are on the
official payroll of the British govern
ment at sl2 a year each, as mousers
in government offices
into which the inveterate bargain*
chaser may penetrate with safety . . .
For instance, the Goodwill Industries
Inc., in Brooklyn, a charitable pro
ject . . . All goods are donated and
sales enrich the treasury of Salva
tion Army ... I am told that several
canny shoppers have picked up price
less antiques for a song in this bai
zar . . . But the visitor with average
luck can browse among the memor
abilia of vanished years . . . Yellow
satin sofa of the 1880’s, brocaded love
scats out of fine old Brooklyn homes,
flowers under glass and dining-room
oils depicting great bunches of fruit
md geese hung high . . . And books:
“Cur Missions in Japan”, "A Tech
nological History of Coal Mining in
West Virginia.” * The Plastic Age”
and other such thrilling items.